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After his tribe is slaughtered through an act of treachery, the teenage son of a slain Maori chieftain looks to avenge his father';;s murder and bring peace and honor to the souls of his loved ones.
"The Dead Lands" doesn't add up to much, but it is always on the verge of becoming more than just a bed time story for guys that wish "Braveheart" had a biceps-kissing baby with "Ong Bak."
It feels like a typical action movie that's been sawed off and sanded down - its blunt edges sharpened, its soft center drained out. It's not particularly original, but it is mean, relentless, and bracing.
A grisly, Maori revenge flick tailor-made for fans of high body-count fare.
December 24, 2015
New Zealand Herald
It's in te reo but The Dead Lands never feels like it's trying too hard to say anything important. All the same, it may well become a very important film.
Seldom have I seen a more foreign film than this one. This is a story set, not only in a language, Te Reo, totally separate from Indo-European languages, but in a very different time and culture, as well.
Situating death as the catalyst to action whereby legends, apparitions and spirits mobilize the command to vengeance, Fraser's narrative teems and trounces with relentless bloodshed, slaughter, violence and gore.